early this morning i found a quiet spot ( disregard the camera strap..it is not part of the scenery ) to finish rewilding the last of the jerusalem artichokes that i removed from the community garden last week...several hundred have gone in and will start some new native colonies around the area...
i already have a healthy colony in my yard and more in containers...rewilding was the only use for the excess tubers...
the winter rye continues to mature with more ears emerging from the stalks...another month and a half and it should be ready to harvest...
the potted teosinte from the basement continues to produce new growth...
new flowers...
and today i noticed the first silks...this plant had a long time to finish its season in...i am hopeful of multiple ears...
my asparagus continues to "fern" and i do believe i have my first asparagus from the seed i planted earlier in the season up and running...
spuds continue to pop up in the bed with the rhubarb...
and the volunteers keep showing up too...these are in the wheat bed..which was a potato bed last season...so with the fifteen volunteers in the south bed, these, plus the ones in the bed with the rhubarb and in the containers there are forty-seven potato plants up and running and i have planted another twenty-seven in the past few days..and is till have more to go...we will be alive with spuds this year...
the new york imported wild strawberries are still blooming and cooking up berries...
they are also producing stolons and daughter plants that are taking root..head over tot he berry blog to have a look at the frenzy in the beds...
the grape vines on the trellis and in the catalpa tree ( and, by inference, the fir trees ) are coming into fuller leaf...
the egyptian walking onions are preparing to go for a stroll...they are taking the first steps towards forming the aerial bulbs that will weigh the stalks down to the ground away from the parent plant..another colonizer, these are onions that overwintered in the ground and will continue to expand their range as long as i let them...they are surrounded by winter vetch which should be doing the good work of setting nitrogen in the soil to feed the onions...there is a limit to the space thay can take so i foresee a harvest this coming summer...of at least some...
and while we are with the allium family lets just say the ramp bed is...well...ramped up and booming away...garlic may be absent, however, we will be cooking with leeks and onions from the yard before long.
the new york imported wild strawberries are still blooming and cooking up berries...
they are also producing stolons and daughter plants that are taking root..head over tot he berry blog to have a look at the frenzy in the beds...
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